Archives for: "March 2007"

9 plus 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers

Discovered this nice pair of posts (here's the follow up) via a question on LinkedIn. Since I'm four months off my fourth anniversary I felt like this is an opportune moment for some self assessment. I thought I'd have a look at each of his 18 lessons in… more »

Learning and Knowing

After yesterday's post - which I will summarise as "look how much I still have left to learn" - I wasn't really satisfied with the ending. You can tell I wasn't because I added a further ending in a comment later on, but I still had the feeling that I h… more »

Rob discovers his Javascript inadequacies, chapter 442

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone who's given this blog a cursory glance, but today I once again tripped over yet another hole in my JS knowledge. At work I maintain several web applications for booking meeting rooms, because one of the mai… more »

Accessibility Petition - The PM Responds

The Prime Minister (or at least, his staff) has responded to the accessibility petition I mentioned a few posts ago. It sounds a bit like empty rhetoric: The Government is committed to ensuring that all government websites are accessible and easy to us… more »

Unobtrusive Javascript, Opera, <body onload= and window.onload

I was working on updating the design of one of the websites at work yesterday, the design was based on our stand at a recent exhibition and I had some cunning plans with regard to animating the page with unobtrusive javascript. The 'panel' on the right… more »

Mugshot 1.1.37-1 on SuSE 10.1

Having configured my Mugshot account yesterday to link up with my various other accounts, I figured I'd try and get the stacker running on my laptop too. My laptop is running SuSE 10.1, for which there are no official RPMs available. Celso Pinto has… more »